what I want (well, one of many things)

[kaigou]

Recently I saw a news bit about an upcoming convention for, I think it was, women game-writers. There was, of course, the inevitable bit about how women don't need their own gaming convention, and leaving out the menz, and the usual. (Uh, maybe it was comics? Great, my mind's going and it's barely only 1pm.) I'm all for safe space, but now I want one in my industry. Someplace where I could post this, and know I'm talking to people who won't act like I'm seeing things, or practically pat me on the head with the patronizing, or tell me it's not a big deal (or that it doesn't bother them so naturally it shouldn't bother me) and I should get over it, or whatever. But since I can't find that locally, it's all y'all instead who get to share my pain. I mean, this shit really is insidious.



Note the icon titles. GEE, THANKS FOR CLEARING THAT UP FOR ME.

Comments

[annotated_em]

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*calmly* Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[law_nerd]

Cockroaches can likely survive nukes. I'd suggest heavy duty steel toed work-boots applied firmly and repeatedly to wherever the critter that designed that keeps it's excuse for a brain.

[brainwane]

FUN. (She said sarcastically.)

This is one reason I'm on the Systers email list. Safe space, soooo needed.

Would you mind if I grabbed that and posted it at GeekFeminism.org? In fact if you ever want to guestpost there about something geekfeminist, you'd be welcome to submit a guest post - msg me.

[nagasvoice]

Well, no STEREOTYPING there, huh?
(Somehow, now I feel like going off to AO3 and reading extremely, extremely blatant PWP slashy fic. Go figure).
I suggest global climate instability will deal with all of it. What? A climate like Venus, you don't even have roaches left.

[onthehill]

Wow - who'd have thought that a set of icons would give me THE RAGE!?

[smw]

Hell, those are all sorts of hideous. Could they not at least label the one "user-male"?